July 21, 2007 | Doug Saunders | Read Bio | Latest Columns

DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY -- Like most Kurds here in southeastern Turkey, Abdurrahman Oguz has never had an easy time with the Turkish government.

July 20, 2007 | By BEN LANDO | UPI Energy Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- A voter registration list of residents in Iraq's oil-rich northern disputed territories is to be completed by the end of July. It marks a long-awaited step for Iraq's Kurds, who claim the area was ripped from them by Saddam Hussein's policies.

Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 04:05 EDT
By The Globe- Erbil

Crises in the region and Iraq dominate Barzani's meeting with Iraqi lawmaker.

July 17 , 2007 |Peter Galbraith

The week in Iraq began with a brutal triple bombing in the oil-rich, disputed city of Kirkuk, a city whose fate is supposedly to be decided by a referendum at year's end.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 | By Megan Greenwell | Washington Post Staff Writer

Office of Iraqi President's Kurdish Party Targeted; Attack Is Deadliest for Oil City

BAGHDAD, July 16 -- A massive truck bomb followed by two smaller blasts ravaged Kirkuk on Monday, police said, killing more than 80 people in the deadliest attack in the troubled northern Iraqi city since the war began.

Monday, 16 July 2007

A convoy of cars snakes its way through a wheat field. Crammed inside are hundreds of mourners heading for the wake of the latest person to die in more than 20 years of conflict.

July 16, 2007

IRBIL, Iraq, July 16 (UPI) -- The premier of Iraq's Kurdish region is urging the federal government to make headway on a stalled oil law, claiming "unauthorized" changes were made to it.

July 15, 2007 | By Paul de Bendern

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Pro-Kurdish politicians are poised to enter Turkey's parliament for the first time in more than a decade, bringing hope to many Kurds that their cultural and political rights will be addressed.

July 15, 2007 | Andrew Sullivan

The phrase on everyone’s lips now is “postsurge”. The logistics of military tour cycles, the logic of congressional politics and the sheer impossibility of putting Iraq back together again in anything like the foreseeable future have caused something of a Rubicon in Washington.

13 juillet 2007 | The Bulletin

While the world's attention is focused on the war in Iraq, the internal Palestinian strife, the Israeli-Hamas confrontation in Gaza and the clashes between the Lebanese army and Syrian supported Fatah al-Islam, scant attention has been paid to developments inside Syria.
The regime of Bashar Assad has used this opportunity to re-launch the campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Kurdish region of Hasakah. The Syrian press, controlled by the regime, prevents access to the foreign press, and the abuses of the Kurds have gone practically unreported. News of the ethnic cleansing is arriving almost exclusively through letters and faxes from persecuted Kurds.